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:2^o //ie Republicans of Arkansas : 

In an aJdre.ss of the Repnblicaii State Central Commit- 
tee to vou of the loth in.st,, and Avhich is being; o;enerallv eir- 
cuhited, tlie eourse of the people in eallinj^ a State Convention 
for the 27th inst., is severely animadverted upon. Their aetion 
is charged, with gross miseonstrnetion, as mainly tlie conduct of 
a few men, ^v•hen, really, more than ten thousand Republicans 
have already approved of the call for this Convention, and a 
large number of counties are organizing to send delegates to 
the said Convention. 

It is umpiestionably the earnest desire of the great masses of 
the Republican ])arty in Arkansas that full State, Legislative. 
Judicial and County tickets should be put in the field. Thev 
know that there is no time to lose in this direction, and for a 
month past they have felt that if anything \vas done, thev 
must do it themselves and not longer wait u])on the partv 
authorities. 

At the State Convention held in April, a resolution reported 
by John McClure, to the effect that it was not advisable to 
put a State ticket in nomination, Avas adopted. There were 
members of the convention who thought it the better course 
to nominate a full State ticket, or at least provide for one at 
some future time, but their counsel and advice were over- 
ruled. 

In process of time the Cincinnati Convention assembled, 
and Rutherford B. Haves and AVilliam A. Wheeler were 



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iiomlnatrd as the Rej)ultlicaTi candidates for Ifresident and 
\'i('t'-Pn'si(Unt <tf the coiiiitry, and tlir()iiji:h(»ut the land, aside 
tVoni Arkansas, tlie canipai*:!) was ojn'ned with eontidenec; and 
I'utluisiasin. 

Here, at tlie eapitol of the State, our leaders to(jk no steps 
In have even a Hayes and WheeU^r ratification meeting, and 
that act of party pride and fealty, devised and conducted by 
the people, culminated in a denu»nstration at once large and 
enthusiastic. 

Whether or not the State Central Committee had the j)ower 
to call a State Convention, they still were silent, and some 
iMcmbers of the party here at Little Rock (for all movements 
'»! the kind must begin somewhere, and ol)vi(»nslv the capital 
i)f the State was an appropriate place to inaugurate it), set on 
foot the i)resent call for a State Convention, Contemporane- 
<)usly with the circulation (jf the address out of which grew 
the call, an cri-oneous street repoi-t is nuule the basis of a 
paragraph in the (iazette, of this city, whereupon this same 
John McClure, as a member of the State Central Committee^ 
[)ublishes the following letter in the newspaper above re- 
ferred to : 

A RIMOR CO\TK ilUCTED. 



Little Rock, June 28, 1876. 

Editor Gazette: — I find the following in your issue of this morning: 

" It was cnrrontly reported last evening that the Republican State Cen- 
tral Committee had been holding a secret conclave throughdnt the entire 
day, pursuant to instructions from the lute Republican State Couvention 
held in this city. Rumor has it that the Rejiublican j)arty will put in the 
field a full ticket for State offices, calling it an " independent " ticket, and 
thus secure the co-ojieration of a few grunting democrats, who sadly need 
to be disgruntled." 

The gentleman who penned the above has been imposed on, or he ii^ 
" not as mindful of the truth as a christian gentleman occupying his high 
position should be." 

The Republican State Central Committee has not been in session, nor 
holding secret conclaves. The Republican party will not put a State ticket 
in the field, nor will it advise or encourage any opposition to the ticket now 
in the field. It has as much contempt for " independent " tickets as you 
appear to have for giunting and disgruntled democrats. 

John McClcre, 
Member of the Repnblican State Central Committee, 



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-- At the same time advices were received here, wliich were re- 
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garded as reliable, that both of our United States Senators were 

still 0])posed to the nomination of State officers, and the Re- 

jmblicans of this city, who were desirous of seeing; the party 

put out its full strength in this Presidential year, could see no 

other course to pursue than that Avhich has now become the 

movement of so large and influential an element in the party 

throughout the State. 

Again, this same John McClure, who is known tn Ite deci- 
dedly opposed to a State ticket, and who so arrogantly assumes 
to speak for the party in the above letter, is the author of the 
address of the Republican State Central Committee, now so 
industriously being circulated through the counties. 

At a very large mass meeting of the Republicans of thi> 
city and Pulaski county, held on the evening of the .'id of July, 
the address which has been sent through the State, and that 
calls on the part of all who have signed it, for a State Conven- 
tion to assemble here on the 27th inst., was enthusiasticallv 
adopted, and a}H)ropriate steps were taken to still more thor- 
oughlv circulate it. At that meetinti William S. Oliver, a 
member of the State Central Committee, attacked the move- 
ment for a State ticket in a lengthy speech, and, upon a test 
vote, was overwhelmingly voted down, l>eing able to rallv but 
five supporters. 

After the State Central Committee had assembled, and when 
the formal call for the convention, signed by prominent Repub- 
licans throughout the State, had for several days been pub- 
lished, and a very large number of signatures was known to 
have been appended to the address, and thousands of Republi- 
cans had approved of it in public meetings that luul resulted 
in this call, the following correspondence was had: 

ROOMS OF REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 

Little Rock, Ark,, July 13, 1S7U. 

Dear Sir: — I am instructed by the Republican State Central Commit- 
tee, now in session, to ask you, if for the purpose of harmonizing all difFer- 
•encee of the Republican party of the State, the committee of which yon 
style yourself res-ident chairman, will abandon yoiir present call for a St<vti' 



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Convention, and join in a call, in connection with the Republican Stflte 
Central Committee, lor a Convention to be holdcn at the city of Little Rock 
on the <Jth day of August, 1870, for the purpose of taking into consideration 
the propriety of nominating a State ticket and nominating Hayes and 
Wheeler electors. 

If not on the day named, will you, or your committee, join Avith the 
State Central Committee in a call for a Convention to Vje held upon any 
other day later than the 27th July, 1876, and if so, will you name the day ? 

The committee is now in session, and an early answer is awaited. 
Very Respectfully, 

S. W. DORSEV, 

Chairman State Central Coinmittee. 
Gen. A. W. Bishop, City. 

To this letter the lolldwiu^i; reply wus sent : 

Little Rock, July 13, LS7G. 

De.\k Sir: — I am in receipt of your communication of this date, asking 
if for the purpose of harmonizing all dillerences in the Republican party of 
the State, tlie committee of which I am Chairman, will abandon our present 
call for a State Convention, and join in a call in connection with the Re- 
publican State Central Committee, for a Cx)nvention to be bolden at the 
city of Little Rock, on tlie 9th day of August, 1876, for the purpose of taking 
into consideration the propriety of nominating a State ticket, and nomina- 
ting Hayes and Wheeler Electors, and, that if the 9th of August does not 
meet our Welshes, that we join with the State Central Committee in naming 
a day later than the 27th of July, upon which the Convention shall b»; 
held. 

In reply I am directed by the committee to say first, that we have no 
power to change the date of the Convention already called, and secondly, 
that if we had the power, we know of no sufficient reasons for exercising it. 

The call for the Convention, issued in harmony with an address circula- 
ted in blank, and to which already several thou.sand signatures have been 
appended, is signed by pruminent Republicans throughout the State, and 
every mail is bringing the names of otliers who :ire in mo.st active sym]ia- 
thy with the movement. 

From a large number of counties, among which are the mo.st populous 
in the State, and those having the largest Republican vote, advices have 
been received that delegates either have beeii, or within the next ten day? 
will be elected, to attend the State Convention calknl for the i;7th instant : 
to every county in the State the address referred to has been sent, ami 
many, in addition to those that have specifically notified us of their inten- 
tion to send delegates to the said Convention, are known to be organizing 
for this purpose. 

The indications, therefore, are already so strong of the intention on tht- 
part of the masses of the Republicans throughout the State to put a Stan- 



ticket In the field, and the time (September 4th) of the State election being 
so close at hand, it is the judgment of the committee whom you address 
through me, that the date fixed for the coming State Convention cannot 
wisely be changed. 

Moreover the County Conventions for the election of delegates to the 
State Convention have been called for, and will be held in most of the coun- 
ties between the 15th and 22d days of July, which will leave ample time 
for the delegates to reach Little Rock on the 27th instant, and for this rea- 
son, especially in view of the very limited period which will even then re- 
main for a State canvass, we should be very reluctant, if we had the power 
to consent to any postponements 

- ~ ^The committee in whose behalf I respond, as well a« those Republicans 
throughout the State who have signed the address, have no desire to antag- 
onize themselves to the Republican State Central Committee, but they re- 
member that at the Republican State Convention held in April last it was 
resolved that a State ticket for the coming two years should not be put in 
the field. 

The reasons for that decision, whatever may have been their potency in 
April, are not regarded as satisfactory now, and the omission of the State 
Central Committee to act in the premises for nearly three months there- 
after, with the imminent danger of the disintegration of the party, if this 
not only a Presidential year, but the Centennial year of the Republic, 
should be permitted to pass without that attempt at re-organization which 
full State, legivslative, judicial and county ticket* alone can accomplish, and 
the doubt existing in the minds of many Republicans, including members 
of your committee, as to the authority of your committee to call a State Con- 
vention, after the decisive action of the body which created it, have im- 
pelled the Republicans of the State to take the steps they have for a Con- 
vention to assemble on the 27th instant. 

We accept your suggestion that Hayes and Wheeler electors be chosen 
at the said State Convention, and with the earnest hope that your commit- 
tee, for the reasons herein expressed, will see fit to recede from its sugges- 
tion that the State Convention be held at a later day than that indicated in 
the said address, and trusting that the action of the masses of the party in 
approving of a State Convention to assemble at Little Rock on the 27th day 
of July, 187G, at 12 o'clock M., for the purpose of pntting a full State ticket 
in nomination, will receive the endorsement and full co-operation of your 
committee, with whom we wish to work in harmony in promoting the best 
interests of the party. I remain 

A'ery respectfully Yours, 

A. W. Bishop, 
Chairman Resident Executive Committee, 
Hon. S. W. DoRSEV, 

ClKiirinan State Central Committee, 
City. 



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This correspondence presents a marked difference' between tlie 
State Central Committee and those representing the people'rf 
call. 

The committee ask A. W. Bishop and those acting with hin) 
to join them in a call for a convention on the 0th of Angust 
*'for the pnrpose of taking into consideration the proj)riety of 
nominating a State ticket." The gi'cat body of the Repnblican> 
of Arkansas could have no motive for joining in such a conven- 
tion, for they had already decided that question for themselves, 
and decided, each i'or himself, that such a ticket ought to be put 
in nomination, and luid signed an address calling a convention 
for that express puqjose and for a s[7ccitied day. AVhat the Re- 
publicans of Arkansas desire and are determined to have is a 
Republican State ticket ; an organization of the Republican 
partv, for without stu-h organization there can be no party. 

The question therefore is, whether there shall ire an organ- 
ized, live and ever-increasing Republican party in tliis State, or 
whether Ave will trail our colors and say to the Democracy : "The 
State is yoiu-s, AVe turn over to your tender n>ercies her fifty 
thousand Republican voters, and hereafter the party in Arkan- 
sas shall consist o'f only a portion (d' the State Central Com- 
mittee and the two Scnat(>rs In Congress." 

Because a great majority of the party o|>pose tliis wholesale 
transfer to the Democracy, they are called in the late address of 
the Central Committee mutineers and insubordinatcs. It is 
well to know whether the Republican voters in Arkansas are or 
can be tied liand and foot i)y these few would-be leaders. The 
resolution ado])ted at tiie convention, to put no State ticket in 
the field, would, unless disregarded, work such a result ; but 
Avere the Republicans of the State bound by that resolution, if 
thev did not approve of it? Sujipose the National Republican 
Convention, held lately at Cincinnati^ had res<dved to niake no 
nominations, would the party have been bound by its action '.' 
Every sensible man knows that it would not have been. 

Suppose again that that convention had so resolved ; appointed 
an executive cominitti-e and adjourned, and the party had subse- 
quently acted by calling a national convention to nominate -.x 



President and Vice-President and fixed a day and place for the 
assembling of the convention, could that executive committee 
forestall the action of the people by calling a national conven- 
tion ''for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety 
of nominating" the officers referred to, fixing the day so late 
that no canvass could be made, even if nominations should be 
decided upon. 

We dispute the power of a State Central Committee to call a 
convention "for the purpose of taking into consideration the 
propriety of nominating a State ticket." Committees are not 
organized for any such purpose. They are created to call con- 
ventions a reaj^onable time before elections, and to make nomi- 
nations for the offices that are to be filled at such elections. 

Let it be borne in mind that the convention of the 9th of 
August is called, not for the purpose of placing a State ticket in 
the field, but simply and merely to consider whether such a step 
.should be taken at all. That convention may not, and as we 
have good reason to believe, it is intended by the callers of it, 
that it shall not put a state ticket in the field. We charge that 
this is a ruse, subterfuge and trick to defeat the expressed 
wishes of so many thousand Republicans for a State ticket, and 
that when the convention of the 9th of August assembles, if it 
ever does, the very shortness of the time then remaining for a 
State canvass Avill be used as a conclusive argument against put- 
ting out a ticket. Xo good reasons have been assigned for the 
postponement of the convention called for the 27th inst., and 
none can be given. 

If the State Central Committee had been acting in good 
faith, they would have called the convention for the express 
purpose of nominating a ticket, after the overwhelming ex- 
pression of a desire for a State ticket on the part of the Re- 
publicans throughout the State. 

The State Central Committee say in their address that they 
desired harmony, and proposed that the people's call be with- 
drawn and that they join the Central Committee in the call 
made by them. 



An aiiswor was iTtunied (leclinintj:; their j)ruj)()siti(>n, and the 
Central Committee were asked to ynn the jn'ople in thr-ir call. 

The dificrenee between the two j)ro|>ositions, oxcejit as today, 
was this: If the jX'ople joined the Central Committee, as that 
committee proposed, it would have been to call a convention t(v 
consider the ])ropriety ot* nominating candidates. It" they 
joined with the peoj)li' it would be uniting in a call for a con- 
vention to nominate candidates, and i^>t to (consider the propria 
eft/ of doing so. Tlu- ])roposition of the Central C'ommittee 
was rejected, because the j>eo]>le are in favor of ]>utting a State 
ticket in the field. 

The people's ])ro])osition was rejected by the Central C(»m- 
niittee, if for any reason at all, because that committee were 
opposed to a State ticket. If they were in favor of such 
ticket, the people's eall waS' good enoug]> ; and, again, if they 
were in favor of ncuninating, there was no disagreement and 
nothing to harmonize. If they were o}>posed to a State ticket, 
the people could not agree with the Central Connmittce, even for 
f/ie xake of hannoiti/. 

The llepublicans of the State are not,/o/' a»tj reanou, willing 
to ground their arms and abandon the field in the face ()f the 
enemy, without as much as firing a single gun. It is therefore 
proposed to organize the jxirty and fight the Democracy at every 
point, contesting eveiy inch of the gTound with them in eveVy 
county and township in the State. 

The people cannot harmonize with any faction that })roposes 
less than this. It is the right of the tensof thous^ands of votei's 
"who favor the call for the convention af the 27th inst. to have 
candidates to vote for, and they prop(Jse to have them, and if 
others do not wish to vote for them, they can stay at home, or 
vote the Democratic ticket. 

The parties who sign this address were ap}X)inted at a mass 
meeting of the Republicans of Pulaski and other counties, 
solely with the view of seeing that the address and call based 
thereon for the convention of the 27th inst. were j)ro]>erly made 
known to Republicans throughout the State, and otherwise to 
assist as best they might in promoting the objects of the said 
address and call. 



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Their functlon.s will expire on the '^Ttii iiist., when the eon- 
vention shall have assembled, and as they liave been formally 
eommnnieated with by the State Central Coniniittee, they take 
this method of replying; to the address of that l)ody "To the 
Republicans of Arkansas." 

We are reliably informed that some of the members present 
at the recent session of the State Central Committee were much 
opposed to its final action, and three members of that committee 
not present at its deliV)erations here at all, have signed the ad- 
dress that calls for the convention of the "JTth inst. — H. H. 
Kenyon, of Jefferson, F. H. Sawyer, of Lincuhi, and S. H. 
Holland, of Chicot. 

The contest, therefore, stri])|)ed of all accessories, is simply 
this : Shall the g;reat body of the Republicans of the State 
of Arkansas control this question of the assembling' of a con- 
vention for the purpose of nominating- a State ticket, or shall 
it be controlled by a committee, one of whose members had 
officially and publicly announced that no such ticket will be ])ut 
in the field; others of which committee have exj)ressed doubts 
as to their power in the premises, and others still have fre- 
quently and pvdilicly announced their personal o[)position to the 
nomination of any such a ticket, while this committee as an or- 
ganized body took no steps whatever that even bear upon the 
question of nominating a State ticket, until after the i)eople had 
made their call for the convention of the 27th inst. 

Such is the attitude to-day of the State Central Committee to 
the people, and it may as well be said now as later, or in any 
other way, that it is well understood by seven-eighths of the 
Republicans of the State that the party can never again attain 
to influence or power while controlled by sucii men as Powell 
Clayton, John McClure and AVilliam S. Oliver. 

Already advices have been received here of the (u-ganiza- 
tion of a large number of counties for the purpose of sending 
delegates to the convention of the 27tli of July, 1876; and 
official returns of delegates elected are beginning to come 
in. It is therefore hoped, for the permanence of the 
party and welfare of the State that the people will stand 



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tirinlv by the cull tlicy have iiuulc, tor ti Stati' (^diveiitioii to 
assemble on the 27th inst., thereby rebuking that j)ortion of the 
members of State Central Committee, who are ()])|)osed to the 
j)eo}3les' assembling in convention at that time; and, fnrther, 
that not (»nlv none of the counties will recede from their 
aetictn already taken, but that others which have not organ- 
ized will do so at once, i-c|)orting by d(>l(>gation to the said 
convention. 

Just as this address goes to press news is received of a very 
large and harmonious mass meeting of the Re])ublicans of 
lionoke county, and others who sympathize with them in this 
movement, held at the court-house in the village of I^onoke, 
on the loth inst. The action of the State Central Committee, 
in issuing its recent address, was known to that meeting, and 
it Avas condemned by the unanimous voice of the ]>eople there 
assend)led, and delegates for the State ( 'onvention, called tor 
tlie 'llth inst., were (deeted. 

a. w. bishop, 
w. g. whipple, 
hp:nry page, 

J. T. COX, 
T. D. KEATING, 
JEROxME LEWIS, 
TABBS GROSS, 
JESSE BUTLER, 
REUBEN B. WHITE, 
Resident Executive C\>mmittee. 

Little Kock, Ark., July ITth, ISTt;, 

The address in harmony with wlucli the call for tlu' conven- 
ti(Ui of the 27th instant was issued has been unanimously 
a(lo|)ted at large and enthusiastic meetings in the counties of 
Pulaski, Jelferson, Crittenden, Desha, Lincoln, Clark, and 
nuiny others, and has been very numerously signed by Repub- 
licans thrcfughout the State, the names of some of whom ap- 
pear below : 

A. W. Bishop, Wra, Scott, Albert Way, 

Henry Page, D. McWhorter, Dan. A. Henr}'. 

S- R. Harrington, Benj. Moore, John Miller, 

Wm. G. Whipple, Geo. E. Schaeffer, Jas. Coates, 



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J. E. P. Dorsey, 
V. M. Cbrisman, 
J. T. Cox, 
Henry Rudd, 
Jas. R. Berry, 
Jerome Lewis, 
Jas. R. Roland, 
H. Ferguson, 
Reuben B. White, 
H. H. Pugh, 
Tabbs Gross, 
Jas. H. Johnson, 
W. A. Rector, 
Sohnson F. Ford, 
J. H. P^leming, 
W. H. Rector, 

R. A. Ginocchio, 
A. Smith, 
J. C. Corbin, 
George Haycock, 
F. Silverman, 
Geo. W. Prigmore, 
D. A. Robinson, 
W. V. James, 
Sam Levlar, 
Elisha Davis, 
A. J. Wheat, 
N. Hill, 
Moses Mace, 
John A. Williams, 
Joseph Freibis, 
Z. A. Sampson, 
V. Robinson, 
Van Goodloe, 
A. Hayes, 
S. M. Haskell, 
Vorgel Goodloe, 
W, C. Payne, 



Terence O'Dougherty, 
Robt. Coleman, 
Gibbert Jordan. 
Geo. Brown, 
Cyrus Jordan, 
Andy Dodson, 
John Agery, 
A. D. Ross. 
W. J. Johnson, 
Robert Smith, 
David Henry, 
L. Alson, 
Walter Prager, 
W. W. Walker, 
A. M. Adams, 
A. G. Cunningham, 
W. J. Johnson, 
Sam'l Johnson, 
Chas. Smith, 
Allan Harris, 
J. L. Murphy, 
H. H. Keneon, 
V. M. McGhee, 
Edward Levy, 
J. N. Maher, 
P. Pitler, 
John M. James, 
.G. W. Lucass, 
Fred Harris, 
G. A. Anderson, 
Lewis L, Reed, 
C. D. Davis, 
Lewis Martin, 
Silas Moore, 
A. Ra}-, 

Eugene Norman, 
J, T. Murray, 
Levi Shield, 
J. W, Smith, 



J. M. Dorsey, 
Wm. Laporte, 
Jas. Read, 
John Phillip, 
S. Allen, 
Chas. White, 

D. Buckner, 
Frank Johns, 
Bill Monroe, 
Nelson Lee, 
A. T. Carroll, 
I. Hartway, 
H. Clay, 
Sam Strong, 
J. Killgo, 

A. Embert, 
C. Williams. 
Samuel Miiler, 
Jesse Butler. 
Jackson Butt, 
Ben Bandford, 
James Turner, 
Moses Scott, 
Oliver Anderson. 
J. T. Jenifer, 
Daniel Neviles, 
J. J. Joslyn. 
Wm. Kirkwood, 
Geo. Robinson, 

E. H, H. Petigrew, 
Ben. Goodloe, 
Fred Robinson, 
Alex Roffe, 

E. Frazer, 
Jeff Ellis, 
J. D. Powell, 
Albert Johnson, 
A, W. Williams, 
Clay Thompson, 



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R. II. Stanl'urd, 
,1. W, M. Murphy. 
Jenkins Wilson, 
Andrew Jackson. 

C. E. Siianks, 
Shaw Jones, 
Jos Webster, 

A. C. Curson, 
Wash MilK-i', 
E. Arnistrong, 
Robert Palmer, 
Dan Ditto, 

II. Bay ley, 
]\Iark Foster, 
II B. Kobinson, 
J. E. Patterson, 

B. D Payne, 

D. W. Ellison, 
Tony Grisson, 
M. A. Clark, 
Frank Silverman, 
J. M. Alexander, 
John A. Reed, 
James Jones, 
Thos. Holmes, 

J. L. Baldwin, 
L. Ihiuter, 
J. P. Jones, 
J. A. Robinson, 
Henry MeGravv, 
Dave McGraw, 
Harrison Nelson, 
Geo. W. Grammer, 
Isaac Furguson. 
Jordan Fergnson, 
Edmund Davis, 
N. P. Bradford, 
Henry Johnson, 
Kduian Brown, 



E. Carpenter, 
W. H. Strong, 
A. Johnson, 
Blackstone Walters, 
John Simpson, 
Jes Brovvn, 
A. L. Craig, 
H. Williams, 
Bob Neeley, 
I Webster, 
R. J, Derry, 
Dawson xsancv, 
Thos Brook?., 
Irvin Jones, 
George Peay, 
Pink Harris, 
Joe McKeil, 
Morris Scott, 
Isaac Boles, 
F R. Johnson, 
James Green, 
George Little, 
Austin Barrow, 
Geo, McNeil. 
Albert McNeil, 
Geo. Flecher, 
Andrew .Tarrett, 
Win. Washington, 
Poland Doors, 
Burrell Johnson, 
Andrew Braysaw, 
Elisha Peterson, 
Lewis Jackson, 
Clias. Davis, 
George Hunter, 
Andrew Williams, 
James Dority, 
Abe Johnson, 
Wm. Termile, 



Lewis Nott, 
Andrew Kimball, 
E. Butler. 
Thos Henderson, 
S. P. Rutherford, 
Meyer Weiler, 
K. Marshall, 
Caleb Alford, 
Thos Daney, 
Bob Wilson, 
Gos Hill, 
Luke Ross, 
Geo. Ch:impion. 

Richard Legrane, 
Albert Babs, 
S. I. Clark, 
N. Straub, 
A. L. Stanford, 
J. T. White, 
Chas. Williams, 
Geo. H. W. Stewart, 
Wm. H. Gray, 
Hilliard Atkins, 
Wm. Keeling, 
Ed. Foster, 
Wm Thompson, 
S. II. Ilurbert, 
John Brack, 
John Crite, 
John Martin, 
John Darkee , 
W. R. Wright. 
Wm. Chapman, 
Thos. Brack, 
Abe Newby, 
C. Moore, 
J Reid, 
A Gray, 



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Jordan Reeves, 
M. Reed, 
Andrew Terrance, 
Elid Smith, 
Isaac Pike, 
Andrew Ward, 
James Massey, 
Charles Penman, 
Charles Jocksou. 
John Harris, 
Anthony Pebbins, 
John Cates, 
Dan Barker, 
Randell Barker, 
Henry Blake, 
Thos Lee, 
Henry Kimball, 
A K Conrad, 
F H Sawyer, 
Edgar Sullivan, 
Wm Bryson, 
Isaiah Taylor, 
Henry Jacobi, 
Adolphus Taylor, 
Edmon Taylor, 
Gabriel Potts, 
J W Bivens, 
Wm A Marrs, 
Jas Boles, 
A L Thompson, 
S A Brack, 
P O Coleman, 
I Kitchy, 
Cyrus G Smith, 
Peter Trenter, 
Henry Booth, 
Andrew Looles, 
Scott Lewick, 
Robt Wills, 



Thos. Hinn, 
Ellick Johnson, 
Thos. Jackson, 
Henry Mc, 
S. Culpepper, 
R. Jefferson, 
G Thomas, 
H Sodden, 
S Farr, 
F S Williams, 
J W Parker, 
I H Robinson, 
Alfred Steel, 
D Martin, Jr, 
Robert Henry, 
Calvin Reed, 
John Miles, 
Levy Cray, 
Ij Black well. 
Green Phillips, 
Richmond Dixon, 
Lewis Welcher, 
B Prior, 
Jas Edmunds, 
Wm House, 
Dan Edwards, 
Marion Wager, 
Ashley Wager, 
Jos F Hughes, 
John A Bivens, 
Henry Bivens, 
Lafayette Froudey, 
A Stanford, 
Pi-ince Evans, 
E Nowlan, 
Jordan Thomas, 
Judge Mitchell, 
Moses Stroope, 
Jake Golden, 



T Dilehey, 
Aaron Fox, 
J Adams, 
B Thomas, 
J Owen, 
S Gray, 
J Farr, 

Peter Webster, 
Thos Henry, 
Martin Ridley, 
Lindsey Barker, 
Geo Moore, 
Thos Cox, 
Fred Cox, 
Henry Dickson, 
Henry Pardey, 
H Duncopp, 
Henry Williams, 
Jas Vanderbilt, 
Daniel Besh, 
U Burns, 
J J Joslyn, 
Geo Hilliard, 
C H Lyman, 
C W Preddy, 
H A Pierce, 
H R Samuels, 
Lee Clow, 
W T Gray, 
R W McChesney, 
Wm S Williams, 
E A Nickels, 
T W Qninn, 
Alfred Thomas, 
Sandy Thonaas, 
Osborn Trenten, 
Henry Johnson, 
John M MurkisGD, 
J LLinnus, 



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Albert Cumraiugs, 
Barral Thomas, 
M T Smith, 
Madder.son Smith, 
J C Williamson, 
Rich Samuels, 
R T Page, 
H A Jones, 
R Booker, 
Chas Graves, 
J Hamilton, 
R G SauQuels, 
Thos Jordan, 
James Tyler, 
G W Cooper, 
N B Robinson, 
W M Facklen^ 
Joe Hooks, 
L Lam be, 
H. Porter, 
Wm SaJer^ 
Dan Tillmore, 
Chas Hyteraer, 
Reuben McCain, 
Allen Hanley, 
Jerry Hanley, 
A Bottoms^ 
A Gro-ves, 
Henry Tillmore, 
Henry Allen, 
James Williams^ 
John Rowes, 
Henry Childer, 
Lewis Hester, 
Simon Williams, 
Geo Higgins, 
Sam Flowers, 
Jacob White, 
Reuben Handley, 
Aaron Hargraves. 



Aaron Flaugin, 
Roland Neville, 
Wm Gibson, 
J as Witherspoou, 
M C Bradley, 
Chas Collins, 
Jerrv Monison, 
Ben Nelson, 
Thos Lemon, 
Dick Rice, 
Rich Mitchel, 
John T Woodward. 
J W Williams, 
W White, 
Lindon Moore, 
John ^ Mitchell. 
Ben Mitchell, 
Phillip Pop, 
Dennis Lambe, 
S Hedspath, 
Roliert Matthews., 
Richard Allen, 
Richard Adcock, 
J H Smith,^ 
R C Marshall, 
Carl Trotter, 
Aaron Thompson, 
Lyman Broks, 
G, Phenix, 
Abram Bewler, 
John Smith, 
Aaron Thompson, 
Geo Spencer, 
J. Hemingnaj, 
W H Gaston, 
G R Perkins, 
Thos Perkins, 
Wash Pennington, 
A J Jackson, 
A Robinson, 



John Sawaon, 
Augusta Seals, 
Alex Reed, 
Jordan Sruggius, 
A Shepperow, 
Jocob B Curtis, 
Wm. Poindexter, 
Joe Booker, 
G. Waddell, 
Lindon Johnson, 
John Becket, 
Allen Riley, 
J Alexander, 
M. A. Allen, 
E A Fulton, 
Bailey Lambe^ 
Robert Givis, 
Miles Allen, 
Polk Washington. 
Richard Banks, 
Drew Daniels, 
Isaac Daniels, 
Wesley Davis, 
Jefl' Lambert. 
Moses Cresswelt, 
Emanuel Ticket, 
Croford Banks, 
Henry Daniels, 
Geo Daniels, 
Henry Lewis, 
Robert Jordan, 
Jas Jackson, 
John West, 
Robert Penningtow. 
H M Rutherford, 
H Hughes, 
Charles O'Neill, 
J English, 
D Burrows, 
Sol Miller, 



1.5 — 



Jas Banks, 

Green Wilson, 
Wm Franklin, 
Richard Cores, 
David Weeks, 
Henr}' Chapman, 
W A'Bohlen, 
C C Smith, 
P H Phillips, 
Chas Smith. 
J H Browning, 
Ike Fi'eeman, 
Abe Freeman, 
Joe Black, 
Ches Freeman, 
G W Hurlbntt, 
F N Slater, 
C Miller, 
I W White, 
T H Rundeli, 
H M Douglass, 
R C Winn, 
J C White, 
Isaac D Chrisman. 
L S. Allard, 
L S Corbeli, 
L M Henderson, 
A W Parker, 
W B F:izy, 
W J Reed, 
H F Fagan, 
S A Winford, 
W N MeClure, 
Jim Physick, 
Wm Bryant, Sr, 
Wm Bryant, Jr, 
Peter Earley, 
S Mitchell. 
W L Copeland, 
R H Hudson, 
Ed Ever, 
J Jackson, 
R Brown, 
Thos Adams, 
William Hill, 
Octavins Walton, 
Geo White, 
H Sumner, 
John R Chase, 
Peter Higgins, 
York Ryan, 
B Freeman, 



H M Rutherford, 
C Phillips, 
A Lewis, 
S Lewis, 
L Hill, 

Jord?n Perkins, 
Thos Lunt, 
G W Torply, 
Jas S Corbeli, 
I S Straus, 
L C White, 
F R McKibben, 
I C Chapin, 
J J Warren, 
A G Hayes, 
Martin Nelson, 
J L Chastain, 
V Dell, 

John Bradford, 
Marion Kines, 
A C Bryan. 
W J Onick, 
E S Virden, 
R P O'Bryan, 
R Maxey, 
Henry French, 
Frank Stewart, 
Elias Hays, 
Josiah Fears, 
Wm Meadows, 
Samuel White, 
J S Rainwater, 
Frank L Beckett, 
D W Lewis, 
Thos Davis, 
Ben Crump, 
Phil Brown, 
Dan Mune, 
James Watkins, 
Wilson Dunlap, 
A L Rasberr}', 
R A Smith, 
Wm F Carmichael, 
John Matley, 
E P G Tackill, 
M B Billingsby, 
Albert Golurd, 
Dan Beard, 
Wm F Ball, 
C P Langan, 
A Rasure, 
Sara McCarty, 



R C Browning, 
A T James, 
J L Barker, 
D Deshong, 
J Disminks, 
John Bradford, 
C C Crips, 
Wm T Maddey, 
D H Gattin, 
John Carmichael, 
A N Barrett, 
W T Gibbs, 
John C Lown, 
Umphrey Jones, 
Jas Henson, 
Ike Gibbons, 
Robt Jnoes, 
Jos Hesson, 
Adam Jones, 
Miles Boss, 
Burt Adams, 
Jacob Trizzle, 
Jos Griggs, 
Geo Thrasher, 
Ben] Early, 
G Early, 

Harden Bromfield, 
Sam'l Bromfield, 
Sam'l Early, 
John Wright, 
Westley Hays, 
West Ketchum, 
Westley Lee, 
Jas Newan, 
Alfred Hays, 
Porter Taylor, 
Peter Whitlow, 
Barnum Whitlow. 
Willis Dennis, 
P Bass, 
Henry Biddox, 
Isaac Sersame, 
Henry Bass, 
John L Young, 
Albert Wiley, 
H E Charles, 
J W Johnson, ' 
L Green, 
A H Pickens, 
John Jacobs, 
Osborne Poe, 
Thos Stryer, 



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Geo Rodgers, 
Wni Royster, 
Wm Allen, 
T Robinson, 
Thos Malone, 
H Robinson, 
A Brown, 
A Rollins, 
Chas Floyd, 
W H Jenifer, 
S R Rusling, 
John Green, 
Ben Anderson, 
R Reed, 
John Powell, 
Geo Allison, 
H Williams, 
Louis Oysbly, 
D Ferguson, 
Jas Hawkins, 
Isam Mauley, 
Joseph Grant, 
E King, 

J B Scarborough. 
Z R Ruffin, 
Moses Beamers, 
W W Hughey, 
L C Bradley, 
A A Anderson, 
W B Hargis, 
C C Chapman, 
H W Winthrop, 
Wm Pearce, 
A Davis, 
I J Harkins. 



Ed Johnson, 
A L Freeman, 
AC Wiley, 
F O'Douald, 
U A Towusend. 
E B Siraraa, 
J Smith, 
M Higgs, 
W M Rasberry, 
Hen Simmons, 
Oberlin Gardner, 
F T Moore, 
James Smith, 
Ben Hall, 
S Ferguson, 
Ben Poe, 
Robert Harris, 
James Walesford, 
Wm Dandridge, 
A B Jones, 
Wm Foster, 
Jas Warford, 
M K Davis, 
Isaac Gilbert, 
Moses Davis, 
Henry Parker, 
W R Quid, 
Jas Curtis, 
N McCalley, 
Thos Robinson, 
Jas Warfield, 
Henry Carter, 
L Lane. 
Thos Harris, 



S Reuben, 

Aaron Blakely, 

Wyatt Richard, 

Joe Burroughs, 

Rich Tabbs. 

Islam Floyd, 

Benj Porter, 

Nelson Young, 

Lewis Merriweather. 

H S Timmons. 

Wm Hodges, 

LarkinLawes, 

J P Harbison, 

R S Curry, 

W H Allen, 

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A J Allen, 

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Cherry Thronton, 

Chas Greene, 

John Terry. 

W Seaver, 

James Taylor, 

Peter Cannon, 

J A Smith, 

Sylvester Scott, 

L Rovsdall. 

P Acklin, 

C Carmichael, 

N Dunlopp, 

John Campbell. 

H L Wright. 



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